Feast of Bricrend : an early gaelic sagaGeorge Henderson Irish Texts Society, 1899 - 217 ページ |
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acht adaig aile Ailill amal asbert Book of Armagh Bricrend Bricriu cach carpat cathraig Celtic cetna Champion's Portion chap chariot chuci cognate Conall Cernach Conall the Victorious Conchobar Conchobar mac Nessa conid Cruachan Cuchulainn curadmír Curoi Cymric dano dobretha dóib druid Emain Emain Macha Emer Ercol Erin eter fair Falga feast Fedelm Fergus Findabair Gael Gaelic gaisced Gawain gilla glosses heroes Highlands horses iarom immorro inna Ireland Irish isin king lainn lár Lect loch Loigaire Luid Macha Magach maic Maith Medb mór n-Ulad night Norse ocus palace pret quoth Mève recension Rudraige saga secht Sencha sodain Stokes sudiu tale tech thee thou trá uair uile Ulad Ulaid Ulster Ultonians wife word Zimmer
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148 ページ - The third was, never to give a refusal to any mortal, for anything of which one was possessed; The fourth was, that no single warrior of them should ever flee before nine champions.
130 ページ - O'Clery, too, has muireann .1. ga no sleagh. — Ed. MUG-ÉIME, that is the name of the first lapdog that was in Ireland. Cairbre Muse, son of Conaire (1) brought it from the east from Britain; for when great was the power of the Gael on Britain, they divided Alba between them into districts, and each knew the residence of his friend, and not less did the Gael dwell on the east side of the sea quam in Scotica, and their habitations and royal forts were built there.
93 ページ - Iberne' on the nights when the master was absent. In the Feast of Bricriu it is said : 'In what airt soever of the globe Ciiroi should happen to be, every night o'er the fort he chaunted a spell, till the fort revolved as swiftly as a mill-stone. The entrance was never to be found after sunset' (Fled Bricrend § 80; Windisch, Irische Texte I, 295; ed.
1 ページ - ... records. The right side of the house is the men's side; the left side is the women's side1. The description of the houses in Old Irish literature is similar. For example the royal house prepared for King Conchobar is described, in Fled Bricrend, as follows: The House was made on this wise: on the plan of Tara's Mead-Hall, having nine compartments from fire to wall, each fronting of bronze thirty feet high, overlaid with gold. In the forepart of the palace a royal couch was erected for Conchobar,...
183 ページ - The death-wail of Corroi has startled me ; Cold the deed of him of rugged passions, Whose crime was one which few have heard of. Daire's son held a helm on the Southern Sea, Sung was his praise before his burial. Thy broad fountain replenishes Nonneu : It comes, it goes, it hurries to Dover ; But mine is the death-wail of Corroi ; Cold the deed of him of rugged passions, Whose crime was one which few have heard of.
63 ページ - ... facing Ailill, that would reach the mid hips of the house so as to check the inmates unceasingly. The Ulster heroes went round from one door of the palace to the other, and the musicians played while the guests were being prepared for. Such was the spaciousness of the house that it had room for the hosts of valiant heroes of the whole province in the retinue of Conchobar.
1 ページ - ... Ulstermen. The preparation of the feast took a whole year. For the entertainment of the guests a spacious house was built by him. He erected it at Dun Rudraige after the likeness of the Red Branch in Emain Macha. Yet it surpassed the buildings of that period entirely for material, for artistic design, and for beauty of architecture — its pillars and frontings splendid and costly, its carving and lintel-work famed for magnificence. The house...
200 ページ - I'd rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn ; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn, Have sight of Proteus coming from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
57 ページ - Over both his shoulders a crimson shield (sciath) with a rim of silver, chased with figures of animals in gold. He leaps the hero's salmon-leap into the air and does many like swift feats besides. Such is the chief of a chariot-royal.] Before him in that chariot there is a charioteer, a very slender, tall, much freckled man.
39 ページ - ... difficult places, in woods and on confines, until the champion of a single chariot tries not to career before me." Thereupon Loegaire had his chariot yoked and he leaped into it. He drove over the Plain-of-the-Two-Forks, of the Gap-of-theWatch, over the Ford of Carpat Fergus, over the Ford of the Morrigu, to the Rowan Meadow of the Two Oxen in the Fews of Armagh, by the Meeting of the Four Ways past Dundalk, across Mag Slicech, westwards to the slope of Breg. A dim, dark, heavy mist overtook...